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This web hosting discussion started by Dietrich on 08 March 2008

Mea Culpa–a dumb question from someone not used to dealing with hardware–and yeah, I searched–question must be that dumb that nobody else asked :[

I need to host three copies of Skype and a callcenter routing app. I’m trying to decide between the dual 2.4ghz xeons on special this month, or the Conroe 3040 (1.86ghz, DC). Base configs for both are $150/month. The other specs/offerings are either identical, negligible, or mostly irrelevant to the task at hand. Suggestions?

It’s been a real bear finding benchmarks, even though I saw a couple of posts here with long lists of links for then. In addition, Intel makes at least two or three Xeons running at 2.4ghz. Which is the one that is offered?

Can someone throw me a bone before I open up another dozen tabs in firefox?

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